MATLAB-Based Simulation of Bioturbation, Part 4

Here is the second of several animated models of bioturbation. It simulates the effect of mixing of a 5 cm thick layer by benthic organisms on a single 1 cm thick layer of yellow particles, followed by layers with 100% red particles.

The function [S,ABU] = BIOTURBATION_2(L,C,M) is a model for benthic mixing, where L is the number of sediment layers added to an initial pile of 10 layers, C is the number of particles per layer and M is the depth of homogeneous mixing. The function displays the mixed sediment column as yellow, red and blue pixels. It also returns the mixed sediment column as matrix and a vector containing the number of particles per layer after mixing.

About me

I am a geoscientist, apl. professor of paleoclimate dynamics at the University of Potsdam. I have been using MATLAB since late 1992, especially for the analysis of paleoclimatic series. Please visit my university webpage http://martinhtrauth.de